Spotfire® Web Client User Guide

Main and details visualizations

This is an example of multi-step main and details visualizations. The visualizations in this example are based on the same data table and show different levels of detail. However, the visualizations could just as well be based on data from different data tables. Marking in one visualization defines the data of the next visualization, making it possible to drill down in level of detail.

Note: Related visualizations can be placed on different pages in a visualization. This means that markings in a visualization that is not visible at the moment can affect the visualization that you are looking at. If a visualization is empty, it might be because it is based on markings from another visualization. Go to the main visualization and mark an item to show information in the details visualization. When creating the analysis, you can add a message explaining in which visualizations to mark items to see the details. See Drilling down into details for more information.
Note: The Details-on-Demand shows information about the marked rows from the active visualization; it could be either the main or the details visualization.

In this example the main visualization shows Sales per Year. If you mark a year, for example, 2018, in the main visualization, data from that year will be shown in the details visualization. This details visualization shows Sales per Category (fruit and vegetables) for 2018.



The marking of an item in the next visualization, Sales per Category, can also be configured to show an even more detailed visualization. Below, another visualization has been created where marking the category "Vegetables" in Sales per Category shows the percentage of sales per type (cucumber, lettuce and tomato) in that category for 2018.



This image shows three different visualizations presenting different aspects of data from the same data table.